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The seminars aim to introduce contemporary research and professional work within the field of design, art, media, music and more.
2018-11-08
The fast-industrial fashion system, where profits go mostly to those at the top, and produces high volumes of deliberate waste, is a dinosaur that will not survive the transition to sustainability. So believes textile management doctoral student David Goldsmith at the Swedish School of Textiles. In his doctoral thesis, he studied an example of its...
The research purpose of the project was to learn how this sort of business model operates and relate to ideas about slow and sustainable fashion. The enterprise he studied, WomenWeave, is focused on economic and social development in rural India, and employs more than 200 women. But in this business model, unlike mainstream fashion businesses, leadership works pro bono, and management work at low financial compensation. Their goal is not to make a profit, but to bring livelihoods to women...
2018-09-20
A new instrument means fibre analysis is improved in both research and education. Its purpose is to spin fibres into thread; they can also be reused.
2018-06-01
The international fashion project "Beyond seeing" was about experiencing, discussing and creating design from a non-visual perspective.
2018-05-02
TEXT + FILM | She wants to create the first thermochromic colour system that can facilitate communication and understanding of how these colours...
2018-04-30
It is time for the annual inaugural lectures with the university's new professors.
Thursday13 December
07:45─10:00
We welcome Lucia!
Friday03 May
This year´s academic ceremony with professorial inauguration and doctoral conferment...
